Name: Suzumi Nomura

Gender: Female, identifies more masculine, pansexual

Age/DOB: 5@ RC, 18 in RY2

Origin: Rookery Earth, born at Black Mesa's hospital (!), to Japanese parents

Family: Deceased, adopted by Stig Valstadt after RC

Other: She's a super nerd, every single scientist and quite a few Pantheon folk love her to bits, she's very much interested in becoming part of their structure post-Icarus

Height: 5'4"

Weight: ~95* Icarus processing and some amount of work on Melissa's part reduced her overall weight, she's compact and evenly built but so much stronger than she looks

Hair: Graphite black, always looks slightly dusty, thick and shaggy, kept short and usually behind a headband or headset

Eyes: yellow gold, this is their normal color, and this is the first reason Melissa knew she had something more to her, as yellow is extraordinarily rare among humans. Highly angular and with a strong epicanthal fold, behind large glasses (she no longer needs them to adjust vision, but wears them for protection), under bold eyebrows

Appearance: highly typical of a Japanese girl, likes protective gear, including the Icarus under-suit; has tanned skin and numerous small scars from living in the facility after its demise; will scavenge HEV parts and is planning on modifying them into a custom suit fit for her small size; always has the scent of grease, ozone, and gasoline about her; has that traditional anime-style 'fang' to her teeth and loves showing it off, laughs loudly and finds a lot of things quite funny

Icarus Processing: yes, at the age of 16 Melissa cornered her explaining what she saw in those genes - at first a bit hesitant because the process was going to be painful, she soon realized how much potential is really stuck under latency. The processing reduced her weight by nearly a third, strengthened her bones and joints significantly, and improved her overall health and strength quite a bit. She's around 2.5x stronger than normal, and heals around 3x faster from all wounds, but has never lost her original scars.

Image Credits: Doll Divine / She-Ra maker

Genetic Abilities: Though she doesn't have a strong ability with communication such as telepathy, Suzumi's mind is very easily seen by others with Vortal senses, and she accepts telepathy with ease; her mind seems 'vibrantly static-covered', while not shocking it's often oddly hair-raising to communicate with her Vortally. Her abilities are centered on electricity, power, and animation of mechanical objects. It's not a generalized telekinesis, rather her power affects only mechanical devices whether they are electrically powered or not. This applies to Vortigaunt constructions as well as any other non-human creation, including Combine-made, however she cannot openly manipulate biomechanical devices such as Combine Synths. (Once they're dead, she can move their mechanical parts, but if they're alive to interfere with her power, she cannot touch those parts.) The band on her arms is a focal device, designed by her adopted dad Stig with some help from the Pantheon and Repurposed scientists, and they are designed to help her store energy as well as distribute her electric power more evenly. Since she was reasonably old when her powers were made active, she's had a bit of a learning curve issue, and while she can learn from folks who have similar powers, sometimes they seem to be a bit short with her: she's 'old enough' to them, to 'know how to use them'. She has had some amount of skill downloads from them, but wants to really explore her abilities herself to get the hang of them. Her electrical senses are quite strong at up to 100 meters, best at 20 or less, she can sense living things but not manipulate their electrical impulses. Her mechanical senses work at closer range, around 30 meters or less in a sphere around herself, so she tends to walk out into the middle of a large room filled with gear and machinery and sense before doing anything else. While near her, machines that have functional parts will work as though they are connected to a power supply, however they are actually using her Vortessence, so within about half an hour she can exhaust herself with a large device such as a textile loom or hydraulic system. Smaller mechanical items don't drain her nearly as much, and all wind-up watches or devices such as toys simply work while she's around. As a battery for Vortal energy she's also quite strong, but the arm bands are required for her to contain and not immediately release it. It's typical to put her into a Xenian room and see whether any of the nearby mechanical items are functional: while computers won't necessarily come to life, the generator or power supply nearby will.
Skills or Profession: having been born directly to Black Mesa's employees and remained on site her entire life (save for the Xenian trips!) Suzumi is a nerd scientist through and through - more an engineer than a theorist, she does love working with her hands. She has a really good grasp on mental mapping and blueprints, schematics, designs, and instructions. Even if an item is entirely alien in design, if it equates to anything on Earth, she will know it and be able to use it as though it was her own work. She's exceptional at estimations and distance calculations, and even without looking at the gauges on her arm bands, she knows when they're full or depleted. Because she was adopted early on by her gruff 'dad', he's had time to teach her a lot of his own trades, as well as languages: she speaks her native Japanese though a bit poorly now, English, German, and French, but also with long term exposure to them, she speaks quite a bit of accurate Vortigaunt even without their Flux Shifted context. She can also read those languages, in addition to a little bit of Cyrillic and Korean.
Personality: She is quite fun to watch, but difficult to keep up with. Alyx and she are very similar in that regard (it's ... very likely she was the Rookery's Alyx after all) and have similar energy levels and humor. She enjoys tinkering but will defer to the adults when time comes to plan out larger or more complicated work. She can be a bit grating, and sometimes misses social cues from people who want to get closer to her. She is bold, and with her newfound physical durability and strength she's definitely using that to her advantage on Xen.

Events or History: As with Stig's page, she is a native to the Rookery and Black Mesa in specific, her parents having allowed her on a tour while they were working... she never saw them alive again. While she does have some amount of memories of them, her whole life has basically been scrambling around the inside of Black Mesa with her adoptive father and mentor Stig, and she loves him with all her heart - even though she knows she cannot replace his own children. When the Combine invasion began, the Rookery's Mesa was left almost entirely as it had been before, so she's hardly seen Combine until the Dragons started showing up. Some preliminary exploration from the Combine was detected here and there - they probably knew that this site was the source of the 'lure' that brought them to the planet after all, and likely want to get that technology in the Lambda labs. She will fight them tooth, nail, and dragon, to keep it safe.

Currently working with the others on the Xenian exploration team.

Dragon

Name: Taanumitae, Dimensional Machine Maker (taah device, numi maker, tae fold)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Small (long) 7'8" s /40' l / 44' ws
Colors: pale golden orange mainly, with indigo neck and belly; wingsails lilac with pale yellow star patterns*; floof on head, rump, tail violet; horns and claws ivory; eyes lime green
Features: long dragon mutt; mixed hide with some scale armor visible on tail and wing arms, back; four legs with 4-clawed paws fore and more canine hind with heel claws; two leathery wings with three visible fingers and sails that extend farther than visible; blunt face with external ears, two upswept horns, canine nose, wide mouth with small teeth and lots of them; spiny floof at head, rump, and tail tip (flexible like cat's whiskers but thick, and have extremely prickly surfaces that can be used as defense); these features are all inherited by siblings, but may pass differently based on partner; egg layer, will likely want any offspring to inherit Vortigese naming structure
Powers: Winged Flight, She is a good and steady, forceful flier in most atmospheric conditions, including low-light, low-visibility, or even strong winds. She can wind her way around things since she's actually still rather small in size overall, and can fit through impressively narrow spots even with Suzumi riding her
Communication, Taan is extremely gifted with telepathic speech and undertsanding, and can easily detect minds at incredible distances, if she knows who she's looking for she'll find them even across dimensional barriers. She also is adept with verbal speech, and can speak English, Vortigese, and a good number of other bits and pieces thanks to her sire's inherent language comprehension. She is also a strong empath, sensing emotions of both dragons and humanoids alike, and unlike her rider she tends to react to them according to their needs.
*Starwake - Dimensional Pattern, the stars visible in her wingsails seem to be 'digital' but they are accurate representations of locations she can reach by Vortally concentrating. This form of dimension travel is similar to the Vortigaunts' themselves, and they have helped instruct her on its use. She does additionally have the genetica ability to teleport however she is poor at it, and prefers to hop between dimensions instead. She can to a small degree also use the star patterns to distract an enemy and blur reality in front of them in order to escape, but this is costly to her power level, and she'd rather just make the dimension hop instead of 'throwing dust in their eyes' to do it.
Technology Use and Sense, her ability to develop or utilize technology isn't just a hobby, it's a full blown Vortal power. She can use virtually any tool that's big enough for her paws to handle, and somehow even though she lacks true thumbs, those tools behave themselves in them. She will always know exactly the right thing to hand her rider, and can assess large contructs and devices for stability and functionality. She can also tell whether a device has been turned on or off, used recently, or altered in any way, within 3 meters of it.
Collect Shiny Things, she is able to tuck things away in a specific dimension for her own future use, and while this is a form of 'hammerspace', it does tend to fill up, as the volume she can create is only modest (about a 10 foot cube worth). She can retrieve anything she's tucked away just by thinking about it. Living things cannot be moved into that space. To a small extent, she can pull things out before she even knows why she needs them, but cannot focus this prediction ability in any way.
Assisted Firebreath, she likes setting things on fire if she's bored... And she uses the draconic equivalent of a lighter and hair spray can to do it. You can always tell if she's been left to her own devices without technology at hand to play with, by the number of scorch marks and crisp-fried headcrabs littering the area.
Parentage: Starpath and Lipatan, siblings 1, 2, 3, Livoyee, 6
Origin: Hallowed Silk project, RY 6, a Healing Den / Rookery mashup
Other Info: Taanumitae is at least as energetic as her rider, and quite a bit of her time is spent fiddling with dragon-sized tools and machinery. If they're going to be here on Xen for extended periods, she feels that the dragons themselves should have a stronghold on an island or two!